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Speaker 1: All right, we should probably put a bow in our
Speaker 1: Luca talk for the week. Obviously, he returns to square
Speaker 1: off against the MAVs. Emotions are high the entire world
Speaker 1: is reacting to this. You know, there's so much video
Speaker 1: out there of Luca crime, so much commentary. People are
Speaker 1: talking about, is this the worst trade in the history
Speaker 1: of humanity? Look how badly he wanted to stay here.
Speaker 1: There's so much going on with this mav season, and
Speaker 1: MAVs still have two more games to go Raptors at
Speaker 1: the AAC tonight and then Sunday the final game of
Speaker 1: the year, afternoon game at Memphis, and then MAVs will
Speaker 1: be in the play in. But let's put a bow
Speaker 1: on all the Lucas stuff because there was some JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick audio that we wanted to get to.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I have.
Speaker 3: This is right right after the game. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he did this before or after. Luca had to talk.
Speaker 3: Usually the coaches go before the players. Coaches go first.
Speaker 2: So this is him talking about Luca.
Speaker 4: The moment with a tribute video, him sitting by himself
Speaker 4: and getting to actually live that and live in the
Speaker 4: moment and allowing himself to be vulnerable and his teammates support.
Speaker 4: Some of his teammates got emotional, some of the coaches
Speaker 4: got emotional.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful moment.
Speaker 2: I thought the video was great.
Speaker 4: But I think just his ability to then go perform
Speaker 4: lights turn on. You know, he's teary eyed, to have
Speaker 4: the emotional resolve to then go put on that kind
Speaker 4: of performance. It's superhuman speak time.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna tell you my first reaction, and then
Speaker 3: I'm gonna come down and be a normal person.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm trying to be less cynical as I
Speaker 2: get older. Are you that old? The first thing I thought, because.
Speaker 3: I'm you know again, I've told you guys have been
Speaker 3: just avoiding Lakers content the first thing I wanted to say,
Speaker 3: and I like JJ Riddick, Easy, dude, it's not like
Speaker 3: he stopped a moving train. Superhuman superhuman? My ass, what's
Speaker 3: a superhuman? They have superhuman powers? That was interesting, I said. Now,
Speaker 3: then I slept on it and was like, yeah, you're
Speaker 3: a jerk, Kevin.
Speaker 1: I love JJ Reddick. I loved his podcast. I love
Speaker 1: listening to him speak. I love the way he breaks
Speaker 1: down the game, and I thought that was incredible. He's smart,
Speaker 1: incredibly articulate, he shows class.
Speaker 2: I just I love him, and.
Speaker 1: That's right on par for him to be able to
Speaker 1: see that and break that down. I think he and
Speaker 1: Luca have a phenomenal relationship. They had one before he
Speaker 1: was his coach, and I just look at the way
Speaker 1: he's breaking all that down and I'm like, he's a
Speaker 1: special dude. I think he's I think he's my favorite
Speaker 1: coach in sports, in all of sports.
Speaker 5: Well, my thought on it, Kevin, with your so called opinion,
Speaker 5: is that before the game, and I might have said
Speaker 5: it on this show, or maybe I said it on
Speaker 5: our podcast, I don't know, but I did say, there's
Speaker 5: no way Luca has one of those big offensive games
Speaker 5: take the under, and if he actually does get over thirty,
Speaker 5: that's gonna be one of the most extraordinary individual performances
Speaker 5: you've ever seen, not only because of everything that goes
Speaker 5: into it, but everything that happened in the four and
Speaker 5: five days leading up to it that would emotionally wear
Speaker 5: you down. And then I think when Luca confided to
Speaker 5: everybody that he's dealing with that video and he's considering
Speaker 5: at that moment, I don't know how literal he's being,
Speaker 5: but he's like, I can't play this game. I think
Speaker 5: underscores what JJ's talking about. And you know he says
Speaker 5: in that clip to be there and experience it in
Speaker 5: real time. He's saw about himself and he's talking about
Speaker 5: being in awe because he played at a very high
Speaker 5: level and so understanding what it takes to go and perform,
Speaker 5: like you know, it's different coaching than playing obviously, but
Speaker 5: he had the deal where he lost his home and
Speaker 5: the fires, and so like anytime I even think about
Speaker 5: for the Mavericks, you know, one of the reasons they
Speaker 5: won the finals is because pau Gasol had a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff going on in his personal life and couldn't
Speaker 5: play like he played. But he wasn't there and so
Speaker 5: you know, when we're criticizing people, which we all have
Speaker 5: our right to do, right, that's our entertainment, and we
Speaker 5: can well, this guy sucked and all this stuff, you
Speaker 5: never really know what's going on in a person's personal life.
Speaker 5: And I just think that I was just so blown
Speaker 5: away by that performance because I expected him to struggle
Speaker 5: emotionally to where it would impact the game, and he
Speaker 5: admitted that he was struggling emotionally and was able to
Speaker 5: completely compartmentalize it and go for forty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did too.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was going to have a big
Speaker 1: game because he'd already won like he had already won.
Speaker 1: It was a every fan there was screaming for him.
Speaker 1: It's like, there's nothing to be mad at, really. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could be mad at losing the money. You could
Speaker 1: be mad at Jason Kidd or Nico or wherever you
Speaker 1: choose to be mad at. But I do. I think
Speaker 1: it's a great point of just how do you maintain
Speaker 1: focus and go play in an NBA game after dealing
Speaker 1: with that seconds before you hit the court. And look
Speaker 1: at Lebron James, arguably the best player to ever play
Speaker 1: one of them. He shows up four hours early and
Speaker 1: goes through this whole routine to get in the right mode.
Speaker 1: And then in those moments when he's on the bench
Speaker 1: before the game starts, he kind of meditates. He's in
Speaker 1: his own zone. And I saw a fan go up
Speaker 1: and tap him on his knee because they were sitting
Speaker 1: really close to him, and he almost lost his mind.
Speaker 1: He's like, how are you gonna tap me? During the
Speaker 1: touch me, I'm like zoning in on the you know,
Speaker 1: And here Luca is crying, with this whole career flashing
Speaker 1: before his eyes.
Speaker 2: Just goes out there and drops forty five like it's nothing.
Speaker 5: Man, I can't believe someone would have the audacity to
Speaker 5: touch a player before a game when their eyes were closed. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that person should be I don't care who they are.
Speaker 5: It can be my mom. That person should be ejected
Speaker 5: and never let anywhere near a bench again. Thinking that
Speaker 5: you can touch a player when their eyes are closed,
Speaker 5: My god.
Speaker 2: People are entitled asses.
Speaker 3: The fans really need to be that close to the court,
Speaker 3: like on the court, I mean they are right in
Speaker 3: the It's very strange how crowded it is right around
Speaker 3: the player's bench.
Speaker 2: It is indeed